On 01/01/2014 09:26, Brian Gaff wrote:
There is a peculiar noise. IE its one of those very quiet intermittent
whirring noises that you can only hear when its quiet at night, and once you
know its there, you find it wakes you up.
The problem is that its seemingly everywhere and nowhere in that its no
louder wherever you go except in the upstairs front rooms.
My suspicion is that it is part of next doors central heating that is
somehow transmitting the sound through the building, but she can hear
nothing she says.
Any tricks other than asking her to turn it off and on again, which might
well not go down too well?
Do others have noises? Add to this of course that you don't it when normal
sounds are there in the day.
Brian

Yes - for around seven years I have been very much more sensitive to
very low pitched sounds. I can be severely distracted and annoyed whilst
partner hears nothing. I notice other such sounds in many places - not
only at home. And the occasional aicraft. A hovering police helicopter
can be almost painful.

I too think that our next door's CH is a cause - possibly the pump
making a whole wall vibrate?

And, like you, I find even low levels of "ordinary" noise are enough to
swamp the low pitch noise. So I have a radio on at very low volume at
night. Seens to help a little.

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Rod